Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

[Matt Seitz]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The filesystem policy _tends_ to be that dashes and spaces are turned 
> into underscores when used as filenames. Don't ask me why (well, the space 
> part is obvious, since real spaces tend to be a pain to use on the command 
> line, but don't ask me why people tend to conver a dash to an underscore).

Perhaps to comply with the ISO-9660/ECMA-119 standard for CD-ROM file systems? 
ISO 9660/ECMA-119 requires file names to contain only 0-9, uppercase A-Z, 
underscore, a single dot ("."), and a single semicolon (";")[1].  For details, 
see section 7.5.1 of ECMA-119:

http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-119.htm

[1] One can use various techniques to create file names that contain additional 
characters within a valid ISO 9660 file system.  However, these file names may 
not be accessible on all operating systems.

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